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Top-grade mares for freshmen stallions
The 2016 breeding season is in full swing in the Hunter Valley with horse floats bustling to and from the major stud farms as thoroughbred players aspire to produce a future superstar. The exciting part of the first 10 days of the season has been a tremendous push for the freshmen stallions, hopeful of transferring their racetrack deeds to the breeding barn.